Thailand is ace

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Easter here in honkers so any excuse to get out of the city was, as always, taken. For a change we flew back to Thailand and I left for the airport straight from work on Tuesday such was my desperation to get away. We flew out with Emirates from an unusually quiet Hong Kong airport. The Flight was probably only 10% full so plenty of space to stretch out and out and observe the savory looking passengers on the flight with us. Landed Wednesday morning and the heat experienced simply walking from the plan at that time of the night was incredibly hot. We were up early the next day for the two hour drive from Bangkok to Hua Hin and then to the hotel and the beach.

 

April is one of the hottest months in Thailand and it was scorchio for any honky not experienced in da sun. Three days of blissful sun worship plus the odd f oray into town there wasn’t much to it apart from eat, drink, sleep and watch spurs lose to Seville . After being submerged in China for so long I was again reminded how high Thai standards are when it comes to their tourist industry – on a level with anywhere in the world. Back we came last night into Hong Kong full of woe. Thailand is full of dubious characters, political turmoil and poverty but what it lacks in certain areas it makes up for in cultural depth, beautiful people (in more ways than one) and a strange otherworldly feeling that permeates beyond the face that the country presents to the outside world. I know Thailand fairly well now and I am under its skin and it is under mine. Nothing compares to you as Prince once wrote.

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